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No. 240,337. Pa tented April 19,1881;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. ROMIG, OF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LEHIGH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PLATFORM-GEAR FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,337, dated April 19, 1881. Application filed February 24, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. Rome, of Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania,3have invented a new and useful Improvement in Iron Platforms for Wagons, of which the following is a specification. A

This invention is an improvement on theinvention for which Letters Patent N 0. 206,042 were granted to me June 17, 1878.

My presentimprovement consistsin the combination,arrangement, and manner of forming the platform of two continuous bars of iron, a center beam, and strap-pockets, to adapt my invention in iron platforms to be used in wagons using a shaft-tongue, known as a stiffpole.

I attain the above by the arrangement of parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of my improved iron platform. Fig. 2 is a side View of the same. Fig. 3 is a back-end view. Fig. 4 is a frontend view. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of the stiffpole pockets.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

G is the fifth-Wheel; B, the supporting-bar, which is a flat bar of iron fastened to the inside of the spring-block A. It is bentinward,

arched upward, and fastened to the center beam, E. It is then bent downward, outward, around the spring-blocks D D, and the ends are fastened to the center in Fig. 1.

beam, E, as shown F is the bracing-bar, and is made from aflat bar of iron. It is fastened to the outside of the spring-block A, is bent inward, and fastened to the center beam, E. It is then bent outward, and the ends are fastened to the spring-blocks D D and bar B, as shown in Fig. 1.

Figs. 5 and 6 show the straps, which, when fastened to the wooden center beam, E, form the pockets P and R, which pockets receive the stiff-pole or shaft-tongue of the wagon. These pockets may be made of wrought, malleable, or cast iron, and be fastened to the beam by bolts or rivets.

It is obvious that thill-irons to receive a dropshaft may be fastened to the bar B, and a wagon constructed with my improved platform may have connected to it a stiff-pole, a drop-pole, or drop-shafts, as desired.

Having thus described my improvement, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a wagonplatform made of iron, the combination of the two continuous bars B and F, bent in X form, with the wooden beam E, made of the full length of the frame and resting on the ends, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of bars B and F, center beam, E, and pockets R and P, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

WM. B. ROMIG.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS WEIRS, J r., CHARLES HUBER. 

